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Doc. 275.] 665
SWEDENBORG AND THE QUEEN.
intercourse with spirits in the other world, said one day to
Count Anders von Höpken, who was then a senator of the
realm, that she would like to speak with this extraordinary
man. This senator arranged that Swedenborg should have an
audience. The Queen asked him a question, which her de
ceased brother was to answer. Swedenborg promised to con
sult the departed, but he asked the Queen to grant him a
few days, which she did. When he returned to the castle
Count Höpken was not there, but Count von Schwerin, whom
the Queen left at the door, while she went with Swedenborg
into an adjoining apartment. There the sage informed her
of some things, which only she and the deceased prince could
possibly know. The Queen was so amazed, that she almost
fainted. Count von Schwerin entered brusquely, and addressed
bitter reproaches to Swedenborg, in the hope of eliciting his
secret from him ; which however he carefully guarded ...
M. Dieudonné Thiébault, member of the Academy of Sciences
.
in Berlin, had an opportunity of hearing this anecdote con
firmed by the Queen herself. "
The Queen, in her account to the Academician Thiébault,
does not mention this brusque entrance of Count von Schwerin
(see subdivision K).
The only other account which we have of this story, is that
of Captain Stålhammar,248 which seems to have been derived
from some person at Court, present during the occurrence. We
extract it from a letter given in full in Document 276, p. 677.
V.
CAPTAIN STÅLHAMMAR’S248 ACCOUNT.*
"In 1758 [1761 ], a short time after the death of the Prince
of Prussia, Swedenborg came to court, where he was in the
* The French original of this account is contained in a work published
in Stockholm and Strassbourg in 1788, entitled Abrégé des Ouvrages d’Em.
Swedenborg (Preface, pp. LVIII to LXI) ; the first English Translation of
this account appeared in an English version of the above work, entitled,
"Beauties of Swedenborg." It was reprinted afterwards in the "Intellectual
Repository" for 1813, p. 370.
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